IDPC recommends improving data collection, prioritising health-based responses, reviewing drug policy frameworks and ensuring robust civil society engagement.
Youth Rise underscore key challenges for young people who use opioids, including a lack of access to youth-tailored health and harm reduction, enduring stigma, and marginalisation.
The Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA) collated insights and recommendations from a regional project that aims to empower communities through community-led monitoring mechanisms.
The UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific describes the diverging trends and drivers in the production of opium and heroin in Myanmar and Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR).
Nelson and Dumbili introduce a special issue of 'Drugs, Habits and Social Policy' that sheds light on the social and structural drivers of opioid use in the continent, and the impacts of restrictive policy.
As the presence of nitazenes, powerful synthetic opioids, increase in the UK drug supply, the 'Stayin' Alive' campaign strongly advises people who use heroin, oxycodone, and benzodiazepines to adopt additional safety measures, including testing, reducing dosage, and carrying naloxone.